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The First Meeting Meme

Rules:
01. Post your character, fandom and preference.
02. Go to RNG, roll and tag others. Since this is a first meeting meme, tag characters your character has never met. If you’re tagging characters you already RP with, then it defeats the purpose of this meme.
03. Tag around! Don’t just throw your characters in the meme, and make no effort to play with others. Remember, this is meme is for interacting with new muses, not canonmates.
04. Have fun!

Prompts:
01. At A Bar: You’re out with your friends, or maybe by yourself, and someone catches your eye. Don’t be shy! Go say hi, or give them a cheesy pickup line.
02. Grocery Store: Maybe the both of you are eying the same frozen dinner, or maybe you’re both grabbing for the same apple. Whatever the case, chat them up!
03. Laundromat: Whoops! Did you just drop your panties/boxers on the floor? Don’t worry! There’s a friendly stranger there to help you pick them up, or maybe just look awkward and blush a lot.
04. Blind Date: Your friend thinks you need a life so they’ve set you up on a date!
05. A Long Line: Both of you are stuck next to each other in a long line. Strike up a conversation!
06. Work: Maybe your cubicles are next to each other’s, or maybe you work in the same building. Or, maybe you’re a delivery person, delivering something to the other person.
07. Public Transportation: Subway, bus, train, airplane. Whatever the case, you’re now sitting next to this person.
08. Jail: You’ve both been put in the same cell (let’s just pretend there are coed cells), and now you have nothing but time to chat.
09. School: Are you both lost and anxious on your first day of high school together? A kindhearted upperclassman showing the transfer student around? Stuck in detention together? Nowhere else to sit during lunch break?
10. Fan gathering: Is one of you a superstar and the other a fan, finally getting to meet their idol? Are you both fans meeting through your shared interest, or fighting over the chance to get an autograph?
11. Someplace fun!: Did you lose your friends at the zoo? Date ran ahead of you at the amusement park? Do you make a habit of going to the movies alone, except today there's someone irritatingly chatty besides you?
12. Battle: Are you a magical girl and a jedi, having somehow found yourself fighting back to back against a common enemy? Are you a hero rescuing an innocent passerby? Are you the villain that must be stopped at all costs?
13: Stuck: You're seeking shelter from the rain, the elevator got stuck with the two of you in it, the lock on the door broke when you both just happened to be in the room...
14. Wildcard: Whatever your heart desires!

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[He wouldn't judge her. Not at all. He's never met any werewolves, Thank God, but he certainly knows for a fact that they exist. If anything, he'd be surprised that she knew they existed.

He gives her a sad grin and shakes his head.] Yeah, no, it's... I didn't want to, but there were... [The Apocalypse.] ...reasons why I had to.

[He gives a shrug.] Maybe she did. And, uh, who knows? Maybe her and Jan are together now? I mean, they're both missing, right? Maybe they're missing... you know, together?

Well, maybe you'll see her again some day, and things will end better. [Courtney's not really a romantic, but she does want to believe in happy endings, at least for some people.]

Actually, I hadn't thought of that, but I guess she could have tracked him down, if she decided she wanted to. [That seems to cheer her up a little, but clearly it's time for a change of topic.]

So, the things you write about. Did you ever see any? Werewolves or vampires, I mean? Or ghosts.

Yeah. [He wouldn't deny that he would love to accidentally run into Becky again and they could try things over. Only, he's afraid Becky might actually slap him of he tries anything again. The thought, oddly enough, makes him smile.] Maybe I will.

[He's definitely glad he could cheer her up, even if it was with a prospect of maybe. But then she changes the subject, and he can feel any since of cheer fading away from him. He knows that, in every day life, there are people that believe in ghosts and vampires and werewolves and the supernatural who haven't actually seen them. He wonders if Courtney actually has.]

Oh, no. I haven't seen anything myself. But, I know friends who have. [If he could call Sam and Dean friends and not just those people I have visions about.] Why? Have you?

[Aw, that's kind of cute. Courtney notes that smile, and wonders why he broke up with this girl in the first place if he likes her so much. Man, adults are weird.

His willingness to admit there are weird things out there perks her up further, though. She's seen a lot more of the supernatural world than is normal, even for a witch.] Yeah. I have, actually. Jan was a werewolf. Only he never lost control of himself like in stories. Maybe there are different kinds.

Also, vampires and goblins. But I'd be fine with never meeting a vampire again. [She frowns and makes an awkward little movement of her head, like the thought literally makes her neck itch or hurt.]

No, I--I'm sure there are werewolves that don't lose control. They just... don't make for very good stories, you know?

[Not that he's trying to say werewolves aren't real. Just that Sam and Dean never run into the ones who are good. Well, except for...]

I do know that there are vampires that don't drink human blood. I mean, they drink cattle blood, but, uh. It actually works.

[Apparently.]

I never heard of that. The ones I met...um. Actually they were distantly related to me, which makes it even more creeptastic. They didn't drink a lot of human blood, but they sure weren't vegetarians. [She smiles at him weakly, but damn does it feel good to be able to talk about this with someone other then Will. A grown-up, even.]

You know, there are a lot of crazy things out there, but sometimes I still think everyday humans are the weirdest.

[Ah, family history. That would explain how, and why, she knows that monsters are real. That's certainly why Sam and Dean do.] Well, I mean. [He shrugs.] They still have to survive, right? Even if they are un...dead? Or, uh. Vampires?

[He can't help but be in full agreement with that, and he nods his head.] Oh, yeah, no, definitely. Humans can definitely be more frightening than any monster.

[Courtney nods.] It's kind of a weird philosophical question, though. I mean, I have a little bias against vampires, and I admit that, but there are goblins who eat humans, too. Not all, but some. I guess we have the right to defend ourselves, but maybe it's not fair to expect them to do something other than what they were designed for. I told Butterworm--uh.

[It's a sign of how comfortable she's growing with this conversation that she just dropped the name of a goblin acquaintance. She gives Chuck an uncertain look, then soldiers on gamely.] I told him humans were off-limits. But I think he's healthier without, anyway. We're full of cholesterol. I guess if he really needed to eat people to survive, we'd just have to fight it out.

[It's only a weird sort of philosophical question if you're human. He doesn't think the vampires have any problems with goblins eating people. But, nonetheless, Chuck nods.] I, uh. I've never met and goblins, but I knew of a ghoul who ate my friend's half-brother?

I mean, I think it was for revenge or something. My friend's dad ended up killing the ghoul's father. [He's not sure that really justifies anything. But, then again, people kill other people for similar reasons, so maybe it kind of does.]

But I'm glad your friend doesn't... eat humans anymore. [He nods.] That's definitely good news.

[Probably there are goblins who'd eat vampires, though! Courtney's pretty sure Tommy Rawhead would. But that's a creepy train of thought.]

I guess ghouls don't have much of a choice in what they eat. Maybe humans just can't stand the thought that we're not at the top of the food chain. [She glances down.] I kinda get the revenge thing, anyway.

[Oh, sure. But what do humans care, if monsters are eating an killing other monsters?]

Well, I mean. [He gives a small laugh.] I wouldn't want anything eating me, you know? It's, uh... not exactly a happy thought.

[He nods.] Yeah. I don't think I can really blame them for wanting revenge.